Endorphin Affection

[imjustcurious]

I could be writing a paper. Psh. I only have two this time. Easy.
So of course I'm surfin' the internets. Ingesting instead of the planned regurgitation. Ah well. Soon enough, e-friends.

So.
I lost fifteen pounds over finals week. I was too small for my tightest jeans. I've probably gained back ten of those pounds since the graduation ceremony last

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[fireballems]

Arcade Fire is from Canada. I least I think so. But intresting choice. Great Gatsby would be awesome for that topic (the endish area of course). good idea. What about all those fifties songs about cars, and the Beach Boys, and American Graffiti, and i don't know what else.

[imjustcurious]

yeah, they're canadian but they're still part of american culture. kinda like u2. blame globalization, man!

I figure cars = escape, wealth, destruction. It's cyclical.

[lucedes]

Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, has some excellent quotes about the place of cars in american culture. It was published in 1922, might serve as a good place to start basing things off of. Also, Bernie taught it for Modern American Fiction.

Anyway, good luck with everything.

[imjustcurious]

I'll look into it-- it's one of the ones I didn't read for M.A.F.

Good luck to you too! I hope I see you or your published poetry sometime soon.

[rabidllama]

All of Being There is worth listening to any time. I've listened to that album over and over the last few months.

[imjustcurious]

I keep falling more and more in love with Summerteeth.

[onlyvalidinink]

more cars: "Cruel Intentions," tour vans/busses --> the deaths of buddy holly et. al. and of course the tour bus crash that killed metallica's bassist cliff burton, Keith Moon drives a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool, the blues brothers --> their cruiser that falls apart and the flying pinto scene, the idea of the car as an erogenous zone a la "Grease" or even pete and pete.

there's deff a thesis in those there hills

[plura]

this is a beautiful livejournal comment.

[onlyvalidinink]

why thank you, I'm honored. for real.

[plura]

aww! you often write elegant comments. this one was particularly concise, though, and i was particularly endeared by its form.

[omgitsnoah]

Have you seen Of Montreal's performance of Heimdalsgate on Conan O'Brien? (I think it was Conan O'Brien...)

Kevin Barnes does all of the major costume changes live while playing the song.

[imjustcurious]

It's so good! And there's the guy in the back at the end just waving tentacles around while smiling/frowning.